River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-02-17

Far from their home demesre
The hapless pair were semsne
Wiki highly mournful memsne,
Chanting pious hymn
To soothe their anguish grymn,
slow freezing limb by lynn.
They pef,shed in the night
From that cold north winds blight.
Which frCze their yitals quigEt.
While from their lips. dcath-dumb,
These SD words seemed to cumD-
''Wc'd better stayed % humb.
Boston Courier.
SHOOT Low
The following address was delivered by F. 5
Chaplin Esq., Of Albert Lea, al the meeting Of
The MiuEe-ota Dairymen's Association, held at
that place a few days since
You remember that early in our ciyil war very
few were killed in proportion to she powder
burned, but when IL came to Gettysburg aud
Chattanooga il was dangerous 20 stand in front
Of guns. Early in the war, one who went over
battle field found the tops Of the trees all cut
TO piece, uut later the bark was torn from the
bodies near the ground. soldiers had learned TO
reserve their fire and shoot low.
4 year ago, gentlemen, you had general en-
eagement with tn forces of shiftlessness on
this battle-ground It has been my daily calling
| for some time past 70 walk lack and forth over
the battle groua1, and curiosity hasled me to
note where you- tots strucl,.s
One says; 'Da.tymen's meeting again, that's
good ia 20 - miles alters hard days work
to hear some bard sing one song" Another
one says, Hoard going TO be here? Good he's
a brick! Full OF fun as he can be-"
Another says, .'Well the meeting Is 0 good thing
for the city, but don't see as mag;can learn
much about dairying. went last year but
could not pick up any idea that would do me
any good" Another, in the Hotel: ''These con-
veutions may be all right for. those who are
well fixed and can 20 into all these new mproye-
ments but l cant see where a common farmer
can make anything ont Of them." Having time
1 took this last fellow Tor a subject TO practice
on and got him to'show nat common farmers
must improve OF acknowledges would eat up
their farms and they .would have TO 90 West
Then tried him Of grading up, and although
the laugh is strongly on me, II is TOO good to be
kept. ] went on TO show that 4 is policy for
q common dairyman 10 use a high priced sire Of
q family noted Tor excellence IT. the particular
direction in which he i working, rather than an
animal Of a family lacking those points, no mat
ter how cheap or how aristocratic in other
points. Demonstrated by figures it takes about
five minutes When half way through, my farm
er friend was fast asleep.
Then in buying, after explaining that yoa can
not pay a. much By six cents pound for the
butter offered as you paid far the
other lot on the counter. explain
ing the difference in quality which affects
the value: then the OF that difference; then
show how il mag BE avoided in future, explaining
the Thermometer and simplest method Of tenn
pering cresm with its effect upon the quality
and psice Of batter. After all this you offer
thermometer sor ten cents ard see a look ia
the face which bctTays conviction that such
costly gewssws are only lit for the wealthy ard
near the words - can't afford it,
Take the most enterprising merchant you can
find in isis County and / will guarantee yen
shall .duL bis butter barrel wiih.n tr,o fe-s OF
the coI--5 and the kerosene every week. and
dash Oh -rns and ogen easthen pens always for
sale, among lis goods
TO te tie intelligence or tse merchants who
! send batter TO the packing house courtad the
boxes which came n last week ard oft 20 .oar-
teen, nine we're shoe boxes and one match box.
It mry BE ve-y nice 70 have your butte. branded,
"Adjastahle Backlc'', bat soue how fo'l,s don't
Z sppTociste i.
Verify, it e harder 10 convert one merchant 70
the ways Of decency than three farmers. lent
/ let ne convey the idea that this place IS wo5se
than Others. Figures don't show a. BIT they
DO show that On an average Of IS or 50 pounds
/ OF buttes year 10 tae COW and to 1e cents For
2 Of E.- rs.-s
I What Is the MISTER with the conye. tioa?
We come 70 have good tine aud have ii.
I They show the advantages OF improved ways and
ard the best ofthe farmers improve but how shall
we reach the masses. Get them 70 take the
papers.
Why taey have MIXED cows AL &. aays OF their
/ i'fe. Pon't it look little foolish for them
hise those newspaper fellows 20 tell them how.
Then they work hard Tor tlsir money. Why
should not they enjoy what II lie the railroads
aud taxes leave them instead Of keeping lot ci
idle. lazy fellows in their nice arm chairs by tue
warm fire writing papers.
These are not pleasant things 70 say hut yOu
know they are rue, and II you ever knew case
of small pox TO be cured by putting salye on tie
blotches, let Us know.
We must have cure. We can never get
enough fr butter so that it will pay to keep
COW a whole year for - lbs.
Perhaps you can understand the line Of i'm
proycmeutthat / would saggest by way OF analo-
~. suppose a maihe NAUTICAL Professor should
come before an ordinary teachers institute
with learned explanation Of the functions II
the abseissa and the ordinate and the beauties Of
differentiation applied to the computations
Of the hight ofprojectiles or the orbits Of plan
ets.
Let Professor OF Language come before
Quarterly meeting or Presbytery with
PLANTATION Of the relation q the Sanscrit to the
Hebrew and the Hebrew 10 the Greek, together
with the bearing Of that relation upon theologi-
cal progress. How many would keep awake?
Let Historian explain in your public school
the bearing Of Monasticism upon Theology or
Feudalizm upon Liberty. Try a Philosopher on
the relation Of metaphysics to Theology or the
| philosophy OF Socrates "a interpreted by Plato
and it analogy to the liberal thought Of the pres
eut century.
/ All these topics would be valuable in their
/ place and would give good chance to display
/ learning. But their place is limited and 10 dis
I play learning Is not what We are here for.
Z There is too much OF the Dragging bee and too
little % the school in all our fairs and institutes.
/ There is only now aud then one who shows any
/ idea Of such place, except Tor good time and
/ & Dragging bee
There will be 5000 people on the grand stand
7 with sparkling eyes. open mouths and
I forms pressed forward in breathless interest 10
I see whether "BiIly Boy comes out an inch
/ q head Of .'Ducky Darling" What il he doesg
There viii be forty or fifty walking past the
I stock pens in a hurry to do the show ard or
stopping 20 look in.
At the convention in Algona, a man spent an
hour telling az what fine state Iowa was.
We 81 knew it before, and the time and ex-